Fr. Gregory Pine

Like people don't like the experience of distance, of misunderstanding or failed, failure to launch, whatever, you get it.

So the promise of the faculty of speech is that we can come together, but in order to do so, we need to be good stewards.

Yeah.

And so this gets back to the point about freedom.

Like freedom isn't an absolute good.

Freedom is a good, which is to be matured, ultimately to be disciplined in the service of the good that lies in store.

You know, like our development as human beings, our service of each other and ultimately our worship of God.

So it's like, we want to be fixed in the end.

We don't want to be like, I could choose to serve God, but I could also like choose to

do drugs or I could, that's such like a lame example.

I felt very Nancy Reagan with that.

Yeah, well, it's a good example, actually.

Yeah, so I think the idea is that freedom is the promise of fulfillment.

It's the promise of flourishing.

But we need to heal.

We need to grow.

We need to discipline.

our human activity in a virtuous fashion so that we can come together.

And so on that basis, then like these, I make the emphasis in the book about cultivating verbal virtue, because I think a lot of time when we hear sins of speech, we hear like root this out, root that out, root the other thing out.

And at the end of the day, if all you do is root out weeds from a garden, you just have an empty garden.